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A Run in Their Stockings
Contributed by Andee W
via Washington Post
October 28, 1998
This ain't a marathon, honey. Running some two city blocks in spike heels
is a whole different technique. Last night, close to 100 boys in skirts
and pumps raced near Dupont Circle in the 12th annual Drag Race, sponsored
by JR's Bar & Grill. We caught up with entrant James Millner, by day the
communications director for the Whitman-Walker Clinic. He was in a cab,
wig in hand, on the way to the makeup artist.
"It definitely helps to stretch before you run," Millner offered. "And you
have to worry about tripping on the dresses of people in front of you. And
if the queen in front of you does a face plant, you have to do some
hurdles." He has learned to evade lost purses, dropped dresses and the
occasional ejected breast. "The thing that I found the easiest is to run
on the balls of your feet, and it hurts like hell," said Millner, thinking
of his size 11 three- inch red spikes, "but no pain, no gain."
The Post's Robin Givhan reports a Monica Lewinsky look-alike, wearing the
signature beret and toting a Bill Clinton doll, was escorted by a faux
Linda Tripp on the sidelines.
TG Themed Book Wins Major Prize
Contributed by Rachel Sue Smith
via Philadelphia Inquirer
October 28, 1998
LONDON -- Ian McEwan yesterday won the Booker Prize, Britain's top
literary award, for the novel Amsterdam. "I feel as if I am in a dream,"
McEwan told the literary glitterati at a dinner beneath the vaulted
ceilings of London's Guildhall.
"Contentment is gradually taking over from shock," he told reporters after
his win gave him instant celebrity status as an author and guaranteed a
place for Amsterdam, which is not yet available in the United States, on
British best-seller lists.
McEwan, 50, said the book's flawed villain, a transvestite foreign
secretary, was in no way based on the chief Booker Prize judge, former
Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
And he was quick to offer sympathy to fellow author Beryl Bainbridge, who
has now failed in five attempts to land one of the world's most famous
literary prizes.
He said of his slim, 178-page work: "Please do not be deceived by its
length. . . . I don't think any other book I have written has given me
such great pleasure."
McEwan said he was relieved that Amsterdam had been published well before
Hurd was announced as the chief Booker judge.
"My foreign secretary is a very long way from Douglas Hurd. He appears
before you in male clothes," he told reporters.
Newsgroups Matter Most to the Marginalized
Contributed by Jamie Faye Fenton
via Science News
October 17, 1998
Two psychologists at New York University recently monitored participation
in 12 Internet newsgroups over a 3-week period. They selected four
groups that focus on mainstream interests (such as politics), four that
concern "culturally undesirable but conspicuous conditions" (such as
obesity), and four that focus on culturally "marginalized but
concealable" behavior (homosexuality, illicit drug use, sexual bondage
and sexual spanking). Judges who rated the messages posted found that
online communities mattered the most to participants in the "marginalized
but concealable" groups. Members of these groups posted far more
frequently, often after receiving positive feedback, than did members of
the other groups. "This is the sort of work that needs to be done,
examining different types of Internet users and different effects of
computer use," says a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University. Many
participants of the marginalized groups said that participation in the
newsgroup had enabled them to reveal their secrets to friends or family
members.
TG Christian Retreat Planned
Contributed by Diane Zahn
October 20, 1998
An informal retreat for transgendered Christians will be held on
January 24, 1999 from noon until 7 PM at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in
Woburn, Massachusetts. This retreat is being coordinated by Ms. Diane Zahn
and Ms. Jennifer Jones of the Tiffany Club of New England, a Boston area
support group for the transgender community. Meeting space at the hotel
for approximately 20 persons is being made available courtesy of the
Tiffany Club, which is holding it's annual First Event conference from
January 21 until noon January 24 at the Crowne Plaza.
The coordinators have also planned to present a seminar as part of the
First Event Saturday program entitled "Transgendered and Christian -
Hearing the Good News", drawing upon their own Christian faith
experiences. We cordially invite all persons, both Christian and
non-Christian, with an interest in this perspective to attend the Saturday
seminar, as part of the conference program. We want this session to be an
uplifting experience, helping people to actively enrich their lives
through faith. Our seminar is intended to offer resources for support and
an opportunity for testimony, sharing, and discussion.
For the Sunday session, we welcome all persons interested in a spending a
time of sharing, reflection, and fellowship focused on expanding and
renewing their Christian faith. We have currently reserved meeting space
for approximately 20 persons. We would like to and could potentially
accommodate more, and make plans for a simple mid day meal
via individual donations, if we have an advance headcount and can
provide the hotel sufficient notice. An advance headcount of attendees
will also help justify the added meeting room expense for Tiffany Club,
which is expanding it's Sunday program to help us. If you would like to
confirm attendance at the retreat or would like additional information ,
you can contact us at
Diane A. Zahn
Surface Mail:
D. A. Zahn
P.O. Box 2176
Monroe, MI 48161
e-mail: damz@sprynet
Jennifer Jones
e-mail: jennyj@concentric.net
For general information about the First Event conference, schedule,
registration fees, hotel accomodations, or other local information, you
may contact the Tiffany Club of New England at
Tiffany Club of New England
P.O. Box 71
Waltham, MA 02454-0071
Telephone: 781 891 9325 (answered live Tuesdays 7-10 PM)
e-mail: firstevent99@tcne.org
or consult the TCNE web site at www.tcne.org.
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